English
extense
Extense comes from Latin extentus ‘extended, prolonged, continued’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextentusas extensus‘extended, prolonged, continued’
- Englishearliest quotation 1795extense
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextentusas extensus‘extended, prolonged, continued’
- Englishearliest quotation 1795extense
Earliest quotation: 1795, Emanuel Swedenborg: “[…] for God is not extended, but yet is…”
Every English word from Latin extentus
Today it means
noun extent; expanse
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin extentus / extense